Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Me on Waiting on Wednesday (135)

Title: The Coldest Girl in ColdtownAuthor: Holly BlackRelease Date: September 17, 2013Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (Hachette Book Group imprint)

From Goodreads:

Tana lives in a world
where walled cities called Coldtowns exist. In them, quarantined
monsters and humans mingle in a decadently bloody mix of predator and
prey. The only problem is, once you pass through Coldtown’s gates, you
can never leave.

One morning, after a perfectly ordinary party,
Tana wakes up surrounded by corpses. The only other survivors of this
massacre are her exasperatingly endearing ex-boyfriend, infected and on
the edge, and a mysterious boy burdened with a terrible secret. Shaken
and determined, Tana enters a race against the clock to save the three
of them the only way she knows how: by going straight to the wicked,
opulent heart of Coldtown itself.

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
is a wholly original story of rage and revenge, of guilt and horror,
and of love and loathing from bestselling and acclaimed author Holly
Black.

I only sort of remember the short story (good thing I've got the anthology), but it's Holly Black so how can I not want to read this? Not totally sold on the cover, though. I think a real hand instead of an illustrated hand would've been cool.